Chapter 6! Lucky you, you get two chapters in one day!
When we reached the front porch, I saw two men that weren't there before playing cards at a table. One sat in a wheelchair and the other wore the most outrageous leopard print shirt I had ever seen.
The man in the wheelchair looked up from his cards, smiled, and said, "Ah, Percy, Annabeth. How nice to see you," then he saw me, "Well hello there. Are you our newest hero?"
"I guess," I said, sitting down. Percy and Annabeth took seats also.
"Chiron," Annabeth said, "we were giving Jo the orientation, but things aren't going exactly how we planned".
Chiron nodded as if he understood. He then turned to me. "So then, child. What have you learned?"
"Uh," I said. "…something about gods being real. Not much really".
"You don't seem very surprised by this claim," Chiron observed.
"Well, it would explain a few things," I shook my head. "But that's impossible. My dad would have told me".
The man in the outrageous shirt snorted moodily.
Chiron leaned forward. "Jo, if you cannot believe this claim now, do you think you would have believed it if your father told you?"
"I—" I couldn't say that I would. It was a crazy accusation. "But it's crazy. There is no way. Gods don't exist".
The other man snorted again. I looked at him.
"Jo," Chiron said, "According to what I've heard, you've seen things that would appear to be monsters. Am I correct?"
Hesitantly I nodded.
"Then if what you have seen are monsters, and monsters are not supposed to exist either, how unlikely is it that gods exist too?"
He had me there. I had no answer to that. But I shook my head stubbornly. If there's one thing you'll learn about me, it's that I'm stubborn. "I can't believe I'm hearing this. You people are nuts! There is no such things as gods and monsters!"
The man with the weird shirt grunted angrily, dropped his cards, and looked at me with eyes that burned with purple flames. "That is IT! I am so sick and tired of having to hear the same thing every single time one of you brats comes along. "Oh, there's no way gods exist" "My parents would have told me!" "Those are just myths!" Do you know what it's like to be called a myth?!"
"But—you mean-you're—" I couldn't seem to make a full sentence. I would have called him crazy too, but the look he was giving me unnerved me. His eyes were full of purple rage that seemed to be as old and powerful as time itself. I knew I didn't want to cross this guy.
"Jo, the gods are just as real as you or I," Chiron said, "And they get upset when someone disregards them".
I looked at him, my mind racing, a million things clicking at once. "Then, are you…?"
"The same Chiron that trained all the heroes in the myths?" he asked. "Yes, I am".
"But…why do I need to know this?"
"Jo," Annabeth said, "Do you remember learning about when the gods came to the mortal world?"
"Yes," I said. "They had children with mortals. But why—" then it all sank in. if the gods did that then, what would make them change their minds about it now? My father had said my mother left us, but never said why. What if…?
"So," I said, "That means…"
"Yes," Percy said, "You are a demigod".
So there's chapter 6! So do you guys have any idea who Jo's mom is? Try to guess in your reviews, and if you guess right, you get bragging rights!